Maintaining Your Eligibility for Financial Assistance Programs

If you have been awarded funds from certain financial assistance programs, you need to meet specific criteria in order to maintain eligibility for these funds. The eligibility requirements for each assistance program are included below.

Awards and Scholarships

CCC Undergraduate Student Awards and Scholarships: Eligibility requirements and contact information about maintaining eligibility are available through Columbia’s Scholarship Finder.

CCC Graduate Student Awards and Scholarships: Eligibility requirements and contact information about maintaining eligibility are available through Columbia’s Scholarship Finder.

SFS Financial Assistance Programs

Supplemental Assistance Grant: Awarded students must enroll at full-time status and have a denied parent PLUS loan application for the award year. More information regarding maintaining eligibility for this award is available here.

Tuition Assistance Grant: Awarded students must enroll at full-time status and remain in good academic standing. More information regarding maintaining eligibility for this award is available here.

Third-Party Matching Scholarship: Students who defer their enrollment may forfeit eligibility for previously awarded funds. More information regarding maintaining eligibility for this award is available here.

Federal Financial Assistance Programs

Federal TEACH Grant: Only graduate students in the M.A.T. program are eligible for TEACH grant funding. More information regarding maintaining eligibility maintaining eligibility is available here.

Federal Work Study: Eligible students are automatically awarded Federal Work Study (FWS) funds by SFS. Students cannot apply to receive FWS. Eligibility requirements and contact information about maintaining eligibility is available here.